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ON THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS 
regarded as representatives of one and the same nation. 
They are still in occupation of nearly the whole area of that 
portion of the Indian continent which stretches from Khan- 
desh on the west to Granjam on the east. 
Koi, Kui (contracted into Kn), Grodu, Gauda, Grondu, 
G-oandu, Grand, Koand, Kond (Kondh, Khond) or Kand 
(Khand) are all derivatives, as has already been shown, 
from the root Ko or Ku, mountain, so that their very name 
indicates a mountaineer. I have previously alluded to 
the peculiarity that both Ling'uals and Dentals are used 
in the formation of the derivatives of Ko. We need not, 
Kidindrine or Ktulindrine, which should prohahly he corrected to Sulindrine, 
as the K and 2 are frequently interchanged in Greek manuscripts." 
Read also in H. H. Wilson's Vishnii-purdna edited by F. Hall the 
notes on the Kulutas (Kolukas), vol. II, p. 174, and Kulindas, p. ISO. 
According to H. H. Wilson the Kulindas were mountaineers, see Fr . Johnson's 
Selections from the Mahahharata, p. 65). 
Varahamihira mentions the Kulutas in his Brhatsariihita, Chapter XIV. 
si. 22 and 29 : 
Disi paScimottarasyam Mandavj'a-Tukhara-Talahala-Madrah, 
Asmaka-Z'?</fl<«-Lahada-Strirajya-N'rsiihha-Vanakhasthah. 22. 
Aisanyam Merukanastarajj'a-Pasupala-Klra-Kasmirah. 
Abhisara-T)arada-Tafigana-A'«/i<^n!-Sairindha-Vanarastrah. 29. 
Sir Alexander Cunningham considers the question of these hill tribes at 
\&n.3;t\x \TL Archceological Survey of India, vol. XIV, pp. 125-135, 137-139: 
" The origin of the Kunets, who form the bulk of the population in the 
vallej's of the Bias, the Satlej and the Tons Rivers, has long engaged my 
attention ; and I believe that I have now solved the puzzle by identifN^ing 
them with the Kimindas or Kitlindas of early Hindu histoiy. Under both of 
these forms their name is still preserved in the districts of Ktdti on the Bias 
and Kioidwar on the Satlej. The Vishnu Puvana gives the name of EiiUnda, 
which is suppoi'ted by Ptolemy's K/iliudriiie, a district occupying the whole 
of tho upper tract between the Bibasis or Bias River and the G-anges. It 
coiTesponds therefore most exactly ^\^th the Kunet District of the present 
day. Varaha Mihira places the lLioii»d<is along with the Kashmii-as, Abhi- 
saras, Kulutas, and Sairindhas, and makes their country one of his nine divi- 
sions of India. In another place he marks their position still more 
definitely as being to tho east of Madras. {JIii<ireso ani/aso/ia Kmiiiiiido.) 
He also speaks of the King of the Kuuindas. This was about A.D. 560, but 
we have coins of the King of Kuninda (^]}a/>i;fa Ku>iii>d<isa), which d;ite 
before the Christian era. For Kaioiiiida the !Markandeya Pui-ana reads Ki7u- 
linda, which agrees with tho KuUiida of the Vishnu Piu-ana. It would 
seem therefore that these are otiIv two readings of the same name. This 
conjectuve is strongly supported by the fact that much more than half of 
